The Bee Hive course has been designed to provide the student with the theory and practical knowledge needed to become proficient in the art of Beekeeping. This is an entry-level course. The course structure has been designed to fit into a 2 day weekend and now a 2 day week day course

Course HOURS: Day 1 - 9am to 5.00pm Day 2 - 9am to 5pm.

Our practical sessionis hands on with live bees in the Langstroth Hive this is on day 1 day weather permitting.

We provide our students with a comprehensive set of notes, folder and pen. Our students get to go into a working hive.

In the classroom we also cover the following Langstroth, Topbar, Bench and Flow Hive.

The Bee Hive Course is designed to take you through the following aspects of Beekeeping.

The Bee Hive has now been open for fouryears and in this time we have had 500 students complete our course the youngest being 9 the oldest was 82. Our students have travelled as far as Queenstown in the South Island to Kaitaia in the North. Plus one student from Germany and Australia.

The course has had a diverse range of students some of these have been, police officers, crash fire crews a judge, doctors, a Member of Parliament, farmers, builders, plumbers the list goes on. Their reasoning for doing our course - stress relief, a hobby, under stand the plight of bees and want to increase bee numbers, farmers, life style block owners, commercial growers and a change in life style -to become a full time beekeeper.

We provide morning and afternoon tea.

You will need to provide your own lunch on both days.

There is a student lounge.

The feedback we have received has been very positive with students some taking the next step going commercial.

We believe our course is very comprehensive and great value for the money paid.

A belated thank you for a great course. It was interesting, informative and well structured including the field trip where we got to actually hold a busy beehive frame. Your knowledge and experience made it very enjoyable and your enthusiasm is contagious. The bee community are very fortunate.